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Genesis 47 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 José informó a Faraón: Mi padre y mis hermanos, sus rebaños y manadas de ganado vacuno, con todo lo que tienen, llegaron de la tierra de Canaán, y aquí están en la tierra de Gosén.
1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”
2 Tomó de entre sus hermanos a cinco de ellos y los presentó a Faraón.
2 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.
3 Entonces Faraón preguntó a sus hermanos: ¿Cuál es su oficio? Y respondieron: Tus esclavos somos pastores de ovejas, tanto nosotros como nuestros antepasados.
3 Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”
4 También dijeron a Faraón: Vinimos para vivir en esta tierra, pues la hambruna aprieta en la tierra de Canaán y no hay pasto para las ovejas de tus esclavos. Por tanto, te rogamos que permitas que tus esclavos vivan en tierra de Gosén.
4 They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”
5 Entonces Faraón habló a José: Tu padre y tus hermanos vinieron a ti.
5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
6 La tierra de Egipto está delante de ti. Haz que tu padre y tus hermanos vivan en lo mejor de esta tierra. Que vivan en la tierra de Gosén, y si juzgas que hay entre ellos hombres aptos, colócalos como pastores principales de mi ganado.
6 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”
7 Luego José llevó a su padre Jacob y lo presentó a Faraón. Jacob bendijo a Faraón.
7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8 Entonces Faraón preguntó a Jacob: ¿Cuántos años tienes?
8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”
9 Jacob le respondió: Los años de mi peregrinación son 130. Pocos y malos son los años de mi vida, y no llegaron a los años de la vida de mis antepasados.
9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
10 Jacob bendijo a Faraón y salió de su presencia.
10 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
11 José logró que su padre y sus hermanos vivieran y les dio posesión en lo mejor de la tierra de Egipto, en la tierra de Rameses, como Faraón ordenó.
11 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
12 José abastecía a su padre, a sus hermanos y a toda la familia de su padre, incluso a los pequeños,
12 Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.
13 aunque no había alimento en todo el país. La hambruna era muy grave, y la tierra de Egipto y la de Canaán desfallecían a causa de la hambruna.
13 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
14 José recogió todo el dinero que se halló en la tierra de Egipto y en Canaán por el grano que le compraban, e ingresó el dinero en la casa de Faraón.
14 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
15 Cuando se acabó el dinero de la tierra de Egipto y de la tierra de Canaán, todo Egipto acudió a José y dijo: Danos pan. ¿Por qué tenemos que morir delante de ti por haberse acabado el dinero?
15 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”
16 Entonces contestó: Si se acabó la plata, entreguen su ganado, y yo les daré alimento por su ganado.
16 Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”
17 Y le llevaron sus ganados a José. Entonces José les dio alimento por los caballos, por el ganado del rebaño, por las reces de la manada de ganado vacuno y por los asnos. Durante aquel año les suministró alimento a cambio de todos sus ganados.
17 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.
18 Cuando finalizó aquel año, acudieron a él el segundo año y le dijeron: No ocultamos a nuestro ʼadón que, puesto que la plata se acabó y también el ganado es de nuestro ʼadón, nada queda delante de nuestro ʼadón sino nuestros cuerpos y nuestra tierra.
18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
19 ¿Por qué tenemos que perecer delante de ti, tanto nosotros como nuestras tierras? Cómpranos a nosotros y a nuestra tierra por alimento, y nosotros y nuestras tierras seremos esclavos de Faraón. Pero danos semilla para que vivamos y no muramos, y la tierra no sea asolada.
19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”
20 Entonces José compró para Faraón toda la tierra de Egipto, porque todos los egipcios vendían sus campos, pues la hambruna arreciaba sobre ellos. Así la tierra llegó a ser de Faraón.
20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.
21 Mandó trasladar al pueblo a las ciudades, desde un extremo al otro de Egipto.
21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
22 Solamente no compró la tierra de los sacerdotes, porque había un estatuto de Faraón para los sacerdotes, y ellos comían la ración que Faraón les daba. Por eso no tuvieron que vender sus tierras.
22 Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.
23 José dijo al pueblo: Miren, hoy los compré a ustedes con sus tierras para Faraón. Aquí tienen semilla para sembrar la tierra.
23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
24 Cuando llegue la cosecha darán la quinta parte a Faraón, y las cuatro partes serán de ustedes para sembrar el campo. Ustedes tendrán alimento, también los que están en sus casas y sus pequeños.
24 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”
25 Respondieron: ¡Nos salvaste la vida! Hallemos gracia ante nuestro ʼadón y seamos esclavos de Faraón.
25 They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
26 José lo estableció por estatuto sobre la tierra de Egipto hasta hoy: Faraón recibe la quinta parte. Solo la tierra de los sacerdotes no fue de Faraón.
26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.
27 Israel estuvo en tierra de Gosén en Egipto. Tomaron posesión en ella, y fructificaron y se multiplicaron muchísimo.
27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
28 Jacob vivió en la tierra de Egipto 17 años, pues los días de Jacob fueron 147 años.
28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
29 Cuando se acercó el tiempo para morir, Israel llamó a su hijo José y le dijo: Si hallé gracia ante ti, pon ahora tu mano debajo de mi muslo y haz conmigo misericordia y verdad. Te ruego que no me entierres en Egipto.
29 The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,
30 Que cuando descanse con mis antepasados, me lleves de Egipto y me sepultes en el sepulcro de ellos. Y José respondió: Haré como tú dices.
30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” Joseph said, “I will do as you have said.”
People & places in this chapter
From this site's family tree and Bible maps, only where those guides cite this chapter.
People
Jacob
He wrestled with God through the night and rose as Israel, father of twelve tribes.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 25–35; 46–49
Joseph
Betrayed and enslaved, he rose to rule Egypt and saved his family from famine.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 37; 39–50
Cross references (28)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Genesis 45:10; Genesis 46:31; Genesis 46:28; Genesis 45:16; Exodus 9:26
- 2 Acts 7:13; 2 Corinthians 4:14; Jude 24; Colossians 1:28
- 3 Genesis 46:33–34; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; Amos 7:14–15; Jonah 1:8; Genesis 4:2
- 4 Genesis 46:34; Deuteronomy 26:5; Genesis 15:13; Genesis 43:1; Acts 7:11
- 6 Exodus 18:21; Genesis 47:11; Proverbs 22:29; 2 Chronicles 26:10; Exodus 18:25
- 7 Genesis 47:10; 2 Samuel 14:22; Exodus 12:32; Luke 22:19; Matthew 26:26
- 9 Job 14:1; Psalm 39:12; Genesis 35:28; Psalm 39:5; Exodus 7:7
- 10 Genesis 47:7; Deuteronomy 33:1; Hebrews 7:7; 2 Samuel 8:10; Genesis 14:19
- 11 Genesis 47:6; Exodus 12:37; Exodus 1:11; John 17:24; John 14:2
- 12 Genesis 45:11; Mark 7:10–13; Exodus 20:12; Genesis 47:1; Ruth 4:15
- 13 Acts 7:11; Jeremiah 9:12; Lamentations 4:9; Genesis 41:30–31; 1 Kings 18:5
- 14 Genesis 41:56; Luke 16:10–12; 1 Peter 4:10; Luke 16:1–2; 1 Corinthians 4:2
- 15 Judges 8:8; Judges 8:5; Matthew 6:11; Psalm 37:3; Genesis 47:18–19
- 16 Philippians 4:8; 1 Corinthians 10:32; Proverbs 12:17; Colossians 4:5; Daniel 6:5–7
- 17 Isaiah 31:1; Job 2:4; Matthew 6:24; 1 Kings 10:28; Exodus 9:3
- 18 Jeremiah 38:9; 2 Kings 6:26
- 19 Nehemiah 5:2–3; Job 2:4; Lamentations 1:11; Lamentations 5:9; Lamentations 5:6
- 21 Genesis 41:48
- 22 Ezra 7:24; Joshua 21:1–45; Nehemiah 13:10; 1 Corinthians 9:13; Genesis 41:50
- 23 Isaiah 55:10; Isaiah 28:24–25; Genesis 45:6; Psalm 112:5; Proverbs 12:11
- 24 Genesis 41:34; Psalm 112:5; Psalm 41:1; Genesis 47:25; 1 Samuel 8:15–17
- 25 Genesis 33:15; Proverbs 11:26–27; Genesis 41:45; Genesis 50:20; Genesis 45:6–8
- 26 Genesis 47:22; Ezekiel 7:24
- 27 Genesis 46:3; Exodus 1:7; Acts 7:17; Psalm 107:38; Psalm 105:24
- 28 Psalm 90:10; Psalm 119:84; Psalm 90:12; Genesis 47:8–9; Genesis 37:2
- 29 Genesis 24:2; Deuteronomy 31:14; Genesis 24:49; 1 Kings 2:1; Genesis 50:24–25
- 30 Genesis 49:29–32; Genesis 25:9; Genesis 23:19; Genesis 50:25; 2 Samuel 19:37
- 31 1 Kings 1:47; Genesis 24:3; Hebrews 11:21; Genesis 47:29; Genesis 24:26
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
Why does my Bible say something different?
- Hebrews 11:21 and Genesis 47:31: Jacob’s staff or Jacob’s bed?
In the Hebrew text of Genesis 47:31 Israel bows “upon the bed’s head.” In the Septuagint he bows “on the top of his staff,” and Hebrews 11:21 quotes the Greek. The Hebrew consonants can be read either way; only the later vowel marks decide. The Orthodox Church reads “staff,” and St John of Damascus used the verse in defending the veneration of holy things.
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
"Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been," said Jacob, and elsewhere "all the days of my life." Thus under the form of history the law is laid down for what is to follow.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)